QCE古代史课程是关于研究过去的人、社会和文明,从最早的人类社会发展到中世纪末期。学生主要探索社会的互动以及个人和团体对古代事件和生活方式的影响,丰富了学生对人类和古代历史相关性的欣赏。
QCE古代史课程大纲内容如下:
Unit 1: Investigating the Ancient World
Topic 1: Digging up the past
Topic 2: Slavery
Topic 3: Art and architecture
Topic 4: Weapons and warfare
Topic 5: Technology and engineering
Topic 6: The family
Topic 7: Beliefs, rituals and funerary practices
Unit 2: Personalities in their times
Topic 1: Hatshepsut
Topic 2: Akhenaten
Topic 3: Xerxes
Topic 4: Perikles
Topic 5: Alexander the Great
Topic 6: Hannibal Barca
Topic 7: Cleopatra
Topic 8: Agrippina the Younger
Topic 9: Nero
Topic 10: Boudica
Topic 11: Cao Cao
Topic 12: Saladin (An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)
Topic 13: Richard the Lionheart
Topic 14: Alternative choice of personality
Unit 3: Reconstructing the Ancient World
Topic 1: Thebes - East and West, 18th Dynasty Egypt
Topic 2: The Bronze Age Aegean
Topic 3: Assyria from Tiglath Pileser IIl to the fall of the Empire
Topic 4: Fifth Century Athens (BCE)
Topic 5: Philip Il and Alexander IIl of Macedon
Topic 6: Early Imperial Rome
Topic 7: Pompeii and Herculaneum
Topic 8: Later Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms
Topic 9: The 'Fall' of the Western Roman Empire
Topic 10: The Medieval Crusades
Unit 4: People, power and authority
Topic 1: Egypt – New Kingdom Imperialism
Topic 2: Greece — the Persian Wars
Topic 3: Greece - the Peloponnesian War
Topic 4: Rome - the Punic Wars
Topic 5: Rome — Civil War and the breakdown of the Republic
Topic 6: Thutmose III
Topic 7: Rameses II
Topic 8: Themistokles
Topic 9: Alkibiades
Topic 10: Scipio Africanus
Topic 11: Julius Caesar
Topic 12: Augustus
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